Second Language Learning and Transfer Theory
A Theoretical Assessment1
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4501699 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Leon A Jakobovits (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1969 |
| Volume | 19 |
| Issue | 1-2 |
| Pages | 55-56 |
| Publication date | 1969-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Language Learning (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0023-8333 • E-ISSN: 1467-9922 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/j.1467-1770.1969.tb00933.x |
| OpenAlex | W2113037065 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 9 |
| References cited | 12 |
Extrapolation from laboratory experiments to real life learning situations is not a scientifically rigorous process. Nevertheless, it is possible to be systematic without at the same time being rigid about the manner in which additions to knowledge are made. The analysis of transfer effects in second language learning should be molecular and have a systematic character that could potentially organize the knowledge language teachers have developed through their experience in the classroom. The analysis presented in the paper outlines some specific transfer expectations under four different conditions of second language acquisition: coordinate and compound training for related and unrelated languages. Some unexpected predictions are generated; for example, with related languages a compound setting will yield more positive transfer (hence be more facilitative) than a coordinate setting. Similarities between two languages in terms of their surface features are more relevant to the operation of transfer effects than deep structure relations. A distinction must be made between structural factors based on contrastive analyses and non-structural factors pertaining to the learner's attitudes and the sociolinguistic context of the learning situation. Transfer effects operate at various levels of language functioning (e.g., mechanical skills, semantic sensitivity, communicative competence) and measures to assess these effects are suggested
Cognitive psychology · Competence (human resources) · Comprehension approach · Context (archaeology) · Developmental psychology · Language acquisition · Language education · Language transfer · Linguistics · Mathematics education · Natural language processing · Second-language acquisition · Transfer of learning · Transfer of training · Computer Science · EFL/ESL Teaching and Learning · Multilingual Education and Policy · Psychology · Second Language Acquisition and Learning · Social Psychology
San Children
The speaker as freedom
Interference in Second Language Learning
Some remarks on the history of transfer in language studies
Transfer of writing skills across genres among deaf and hard of hearing elementary writers
Constraining Variation in Decreolization
Strategic L2 lexical innovation
Writing in L1 and L2
Transformational-generative Theories of Language and the Role of Conditioning in Language Learning
The relation of bilingualism to intelligence.
Language and the mind
Bilingualism and Primary Education
Implications of Recent Psycholinguistic Developments for the Teaching of a Second Language
Some Theoretical Aspects of Language Learning and Language Teaching
Dimensionality of Compound-coordinate Bilingualism
The Handbook of Research on Teaching
Attitudinal and cognitive aspects of intensive study of a second language
Linguistic Choice and Levels of Social Change1
| Unique citing works | 9 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,16 |
| Citation span | 1971 - 2024 (54) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 7 |